Charlotte Brunsdon

The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera traces the history of the feminist engagement with soap opera using a wide range of sources from programme publicity to interviews with key scholars. The book reveals that feminist scholarship on soap opera was a significant site of which the identity 'feminist intellectual' was produced in dialogue with her imagined other, the soap opera watching housewife. The book integrates personal autobiographical accounts within a broader history which traces both the move from 'women's liberation' to 'Feminism', and the acceptance of soap opera as a serious object of study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159803
• ISBN-10: 0198159803
• Artikelnr.: 22371285

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Brunsdon Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part 1. Mapping the Fields
* Women's genres and female agency
* Part 2. Early Work on Soap Opera: "Worrying Responsibility"
* The Housewife in the 1940s Mass Communication Research: Arnheim,
Kaufman, and Herzog
* Feminists Taking Soap Opera Seriously: The Work of Carol Lopate,
Michele Mattelart, and Tania Modleski
* Fantasies of the Housewife: The Case of Crossroads
* Part 3. Talking Soap Opera
* Autobiography and Ethnography
* 'I don't think we thought about it as studying soap opera': Christine
Geraghty
* 'What about the rest of the audience?' Dorothy Hobson
* 'Slightly guilty pleasures': Terry Lovell
* 'The pleasure of a programme like this is not something simple': Ien
Ang
* 'A sense of trying to valorise soap opera as women's TV': Ellen
Seiter
* Commonalties: Writing Across the Interviews
* The Feminist, the Housewife, and the Soap Opera
* Appendix
* Bibliography